Summary: Add the /debug flag to the linker command in Visual Studio
Reviewed-by: mgronlun, poonam, hosterda

Reviewed-by: hosterda, stefank, brutisso

Reviewed-by: never, jrose
Contributed-by: volker.simonis@gmail.com

Summary: Updated create.bat and ProjectCreator
Reviewed-by: brutisso, stefank, ohair

Summary: Updates to Visual Studio project creation and development launcher
Reviewed-by: stefank, coleenp

Summary: Add new development launcher called hotspot(.exe)
Reviewed-by: coleenp

Summary: Replaced MakeDeps and the includeDB files with more standardized solutions.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kvn, kamg

Summary: Change all the Sun copyrights to Oracle copyright
Reviewed-by: ohair

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified in 2009, up to 07/09
Reviewed-by: tbell, ohair

Summary: Fixes incorrect handling of precompiled headers in diff mode.
Reviewed-by: never, twisti

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose, twisti

Summary: Add 2 news classes to create VC8 and VC9 projects
Reviewed-by: apetrusenko, xlu

Summary: I have collected some typos I have found while looking at the code.
Reviewed-by: kvn, never

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: Define HOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH in the preprocessor flags of the generated projects
Reviewed-by: kamg, xlu

Summary: Update copyright for files that have been modified starting July 2008 to Dec 2008
Reviewed-by: katleman, ohair, tbell

Reviewed-by: rasbold, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose

Reviewed-by: kvn

Summary: remove old private plugin interface, simplify, rework old plugin to use unchanged Gnu sources
Reviewed-by: kvn, rasbold